Ellie Whitney Sharon Rady Rolfes

This is the most widely used introductory nutrition text used by students from around the world and you will see that it s a text worth keeping Not only will this best selling book help you excel in your nutrition course, Whitney and Rolfes UNDERSTANDING NUTRITION will also guide you in applying the most current nutrition research and show the relevance to your own life.This is the most widely used introductory nutrition text used by students from around the world and you will see that it s a text worth keeping Not only will this best selling book help you excel in your nutrition course, Whitney and Rolfes UNDERSTANDING NUTRITION will also guide you in applying the most current nutrition research and show the relevance to your own life UNDERSTANDING NUTRITION is at the forefront of the latest advances in human nutrition helping you understand what the scientific facts tell us about human nutrition and health Ellie Whitney and Sharon Rady Rolfes begin with the basics an introduction to the nutrients and then guide you through every important topic covered in today s nutrition courses Linked chapter by chapter to the CengageNOW, a new online resource that provides you with PERSONALIZED STUDY tools, Thomson Audio Study Products, animations that clarify complex processes, and much , this Eleventh Edition of UNDERSTANDING NUTRITION features everything you need to keep on top of this quickly evolving field.

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if I could give 6 stars to this book I would!This is the IT Nutrition book, this isn't something you read in one go, it's a keeper to put on your life shelf and go back to several times. This book talks about nutrition from every corner, it surrounds it and envelops it in a magnificent way. The illustrations displayed, the whole layout of the book is amazing apart from the information which is exceedingly mind blowing for it deals with everything related to nutrition, you'll get a brain freeze f [...]

Probably the most useful textbook I ever bought in college. I still have my old copy and refer to it frequently as a mom. Excellent nutritional guidelines for children and athletes, growth & weight charts, and amazingly approachable definitions of all the various vitamins and minerals.

This was well-organized, written, and illustrated. I found it to be a great resource for learning class material, much better than the lectures. It gave good explanations of bodily processes and also provided helpful summaries for reference. It was mostly free of woo but as others noted was written to the USDA's guidelines. It also contained information about complementing proteins, which is not universally accepted. Overall, it was OK, so settle in with your USDA-mandated 3 cups of low-fat milk [...]

As textbooks go, this is a good one. The information is clearly presented and logically organized. This is the 14th edition of the book, so typos and errors are pretty much nonexistent. The information felt current even though the title has been the standard in nutrition for decades. A very good, introductory nutrition text. The content is fairly basic and probably easily found online in other formats, but I think having everything in one text and easily accessible is still worthwhile. My only m [...]

Read for a nutrition class. Doesn't seem up to date and the authors show their biases. They are particularly dismissive of and ready to blame "the consumer" for shortcomings. The Standard American Diet doesn't fail us, we fail the diet! (well, okay, they're not quite that obvious about their disdain but it does come across.) They are also exceedingly fond of the grain and dairy industries--I sometimes wondered if lobbyists from those industries paid the authors' salaries. Still, the basics seem [...]

This is a very informative text that includes several useful charts. I used this for a distance-learning college course and found that, even without face-to-face interaction with an instructor, I got my money's worth from the class based on the quality of this book. Of course, it's still a textbook, mind, so don't expect a riveting read. It's instructive, well-illustrated, organized all things a textbook should be.

I didn't really care for this book at all. I had to read it for a college nutrition class. There has to be better books out there. It was written to please the government. The descriptions of how the body absorbs and distributes the vitamins and minerals through the food that we eat was great. That's the only positive thing I have to say about it.

Still reading it for my Introduction to Nutrition class. It's not a bad book, full of a lot of information! My only probalem was how they presented cellular metabolism, I found that to be somewhat confusing. It'd be better if it used the names of the enzymes and intermediate step names as oppose to random carbon circles.

The nutritional information presented in the book is of high quality and well referenced. I had some difficulty with the writing flow but regardless found the read to be a valuable contribution to my education.